Lot 55
  • 55

Giuseppe Passeri Rome 1654 - 1714

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giuseppe Passeri
  • study of a kneeling angel
  • pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash, heightened with white, over red chalk

     

Provenance

Probably Comte de Caylus (L.474)

Exhibited

Ixelles, Musée Communal, de Giorgione à Tiepolo, Dessins italiens du 15e au 18e siècle dans les collections privées et publiques de Belgique, 1993, cat. no. 90, reproduced

Condition

Laid down. Some very small holes at top. Surface dirt.
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Catalogue Note

Dr Dieter Graf identified this drawing as a preparatory study for Passeri's trompe l'oeil decoration, simulating sculpture, around the high altar of San Nicola dei Lorenesi in Rome.